New York being the international capital of the Capital and running its metro system on 18th century technology is fitting.

Surely this couldn’t possibly have anything to do with a certain country using its control over financial institutions to prevent processing payments from “bad” countries.

So, in short the demands are: disarm yourself, and THEN we will totally not attack you!

Indeed, here’s an article I just read this week with the same observations you made, it even uses the same examples of conversations with Trots and the shows same “tactics” Trots use to steer the conversation.

https://taiyangyu.medium.com/trotskyists-dont-believe-anything-554a93dc2faa

he even removed the Israeli and US flag from his bio

Funnily enough, he also replaced “Anti-communist” with “Human”.

China, a developing country: lifts 800 million people out of extreme poverty.

Meanwhile UK:

Let us put backdoors in every single device our agents are using, what could go wrong!

Yep, that’s such a great way to put it. I’m definitely using it going forward.

More commonly known as Anarcho-natoism.

So now that you know they had absolutely no basis for that story, hopefully you will be more skeptical next time about atrocity propaganda about our “geopolitical enemies”.

The comparative worth is this: At least we’re not as bad as those orientals!

This article, Mainstream and the Margins has a bunch of examples of this framing by Chomsky (chapter “Inept Empire”).

Doing local peronal notes/wiki in a gemini format is such a cool idea. Thanks.

It’s almost as if those politicians are not representing the citizens but the landlords. Naaah, that can’t be, we vooooted for them!

Absolutely, also in Poland.

I will never forgive Lula for vetoing Venezuela’s admission to BRICS.